As a contest organizer you want to hold a successful contest that teams will come back to year after year. Money is tight and trying to distribute prize money fairly and keeping as many people happy can be tough.

Other than a well run contest, teams are looking for a high percentage of their entry fees going to the payout pool. Most would like to see 80-100% of entry fees going towards the purse.

Surveys in some popular BBQ forums have come back as most teams would like to see payouts go as far as 10th place. We are calling out the team names down to 10th place why not award them as well.

Here are a few examples of distributing payouts using this strategy. See if you can make it work for your contest.

5000

%

5000

%

5000

%

GC

900

18%

GC

1000

20%

GC

1100

22%

RGC

500

10%

RGC

500

10%

RGC

550

11%

3rd overall

300

6%

3rd overall

300

6%

3rd overall

350

7%

1st

250

20%

1st

250

20%

1st

225

18%

2nd

200

16%

2nd

175

14%

2nd

150

12%

3rd

125

10%

3rd

125

10%

3rd

125

10%

4th

75

6%

4th

75

6%

4th

75

6%

5th

50

4%

5th

50

4%

5th

50

4%

6th

25

2%

6th

25

2%

6th

25

2%

7th

25

2%

7th

25

2%

7th

25

2%

8th

25

2%

8th

25

2%

8th

25

2%

9th

25

2%

9th

25

2%

9th

25

2%

10th

25

2%

10th

25

2%

10th

25

2%

Catergories

3300

100%

Catergories

3200

100%

Catergories

3000

100%

Overall

1700

Overall

1800

Overall

2000

Total Payout

5000

Total Payout

5000

Total Payout

5000

This gives a few options for paying 10 places in each category and top 3 overall. Below gives options for top 10 in both and shows how you can distribute payouts to make sense for more for GC and a little less for GC.